cover #54: mysterious ways

song: mysterious ways
cover: kmfdm
original: u2

comments: man, u2 really just rubs me the wrong way. this is basically their only song that i can tolerate or like. well, this and hold me thrill me kiss me kill me from the batman forever soundtrack, but that's because batman forever is the best batman movie ever, forever.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
amazon, how can you NOT have kmfdm's cover? what is WRONG with you?
u2 - mysterious ways

lyrics: johnny take a walk with your sister, the moon
let her pale light in to fill up your room
you've been living underground, eating from a can
you've been running away from what you don't understand

love, she's slipping
you're sliding down
will she be there when you
hit the ground?

it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
she moves in mysterious ways
it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
she moves in mysterious ways

johnny take a dive with your sister in the rain
let her talk about the things you can't explain
to touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal
if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel
on your knees boy

she's the wave, she turned the tide
she sees a man inside the child

it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
she moves in mysterious ways
it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
she moves in mysterious ways

it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
lift my days, light up my nights

one day you look back and you see
where you were held out by this love
while you can stand there, you could move on this moment
follow this feeling

it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
she moves in mysterious ways
it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
she moves in mysterious ways

it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
we move through the miracle days
it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
spirit moves in mysterious ways
it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
lift my days, light up my nights

cover #55: i'm on fire

song: i'm on fire
cover: bat for lashes
original: bruce springsteen

comments: there are undertones to this song that always made me a little uneasy; the not-so-veiled references to venereal disease, the lack of clarity on whether or not the guy in the song is a homicidal rapist, the overbearing stalker-ness. bat for lashes' version, however, evokes madames of lower-middle-class brothel houses. to each their own.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
bruce springsteen - i'm on fire
bat for lashes - i'm on fire

lyrics: hey, little girl, is your daddy home
did he go away and leave you all alone
i got a bad desire
oh, oh, oh, i'm on fire

tell me now, baby, is he good to you
can he do to you the things that i do
i can take you higher
oh, oh, oh, i'm on fire

sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby
edgy and dull
and cut a six-inch valley
through the middle of my soul

at night i wake up
with the sheets soaking wet
and a freight train running
through the middle of my head
only you can cool my desire
oh, oh, oh, i'm on fire
oh, oh, oh, i'm on fire
oh, oh, oh, i'm on fire